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TIL UNICEF tried to provide clean drinking water for people of the Bengal Delta by drilling wells. The ground was contaminated with Arsenic and ended up poisoning over 50 million people.

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Vv6m TIL mountain goats are not actually goats, but members of the Antelope family
mbBx TIL that there’s a diamond mine open to public in Arkansas that is the only diamond mine open to public. Visitors can keep whatever the gems they find . 31000 gems have been found so far since it became a state park in 1972.
lowX5 TIL of the Cradle to Cradle system of design, where all elements used in production can either be returned to their natural environment, or reused continuously, in an essentially waste-free system.
5VPr8 TIL: The US Secret Service uses Elements of the Russian "Systema" martial art techniques.
ep5k TIL that in the 1650s Anthony Johnson, an African man, won a court case that let him keep another African, John Casor, as his slave instead of ending his indentured servitude. This meant that the first legally recognized owner of a permanent slave in America was an African man.